Patrick Tomassi

I've decided I need to get off social media. But I still want to share my writing with those that are interested. If you'd like to get an email when I publish a new article (and that's all I'll ever send), you can subscribe here! patricktomassi.com/subscribe/

Some friends (inc @StancilJoshua and @TJBerden) have been working on this doc for yrs. It's about the APAC restorative justice prison system in Brazil. If we want to have a serious conv about prison reform, I think this is a great place to start. vimeo.com/463569434

Happy New Years Eve! My account will go away tonight. In lieu of flowers, send subscribers to patricktomassi.com/subscribe

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My feature for @americamag, which deals with the problem of racial bias in the Catholic homeschool textbooks that I and many others used growing up, and how Black Catholic homeschoolers have dealt with biased curricula. patricktomassi.com/catholic-homes…

My first piece for Veritas Journal (which I help to edit) on the experience of teaching during COVID, Walker Percy's "everydayness," and Augustine's "restless heart." patricktomassi.com/everydayness-a…

My essay for @PublicDiscourse, in which I continued to reflect on the protests in Portland (bringing in the Proud Boys' rallies as well) and the way that American Puritanism has influenced both far-right and far-left extremes. patricktomassi.com/finding-the-ro…

My first reported piece for @BrkngGround, which looked at the protests over the summer in Portland, and the tension between peaceful and violent demonstration. patricktomassi.com/portland-prote…

An op-ed I wrote for the Portland Tribune about the need to increase rapid COVID testing in order to re-open schools (an idea which has since begun to catch on, but still not really become a reality). patricktomassi.com/to-reopen-scho…

My first piece for @americamag, in which I tell about the unexpected friendship that began at the New York Encounter, which led, among other things, to me having a wonderful godson. @nyencounter patricktomassi.com/what-the-new-y…

A story I wrote for @GrottoNetwork about my barber, whose love for his children is the most beautiful answer to what Pope Francis calls our throw-away culture. patricktomassi.com/without-my-dau…

An essay for @ChurchLifeND about eros and possession, and what they have to do with the Cross, in Brideshead Revisited (which became my favorite novel through writing this piece). patricktomassi.com/brideshead-rev…

A reflection on one of my favorite films, Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" patricktomassi.com/let-me-feel-th…

Do you follow me here because you liked an article I wrote? If so, please consider subscribing to my website – where I swear you'll just get an email about once a month when new articles are published – b/c my Twitter is going away! patricktomassi.com/subscribe Articles in thread.

@Anna_Paolicelli @duetosymmetry @SeamusBlackley Decidedly not. I'm not nearly this smart.

Hey math twitter, are (any?) non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function known to be algebraic over Q? Or transcendental? Also is there any reason to care about them being algebraic?

A wonderful article from a great friend of the New York Encounter! What good things have you experienced from the New York Encounter?